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Edward L. Doheny

American businessman

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  • Los Angeles: Harbor Freeway
    In Los Angeles: Manufacturing

    When Edward L. Doheny discovered oil under a private residence in 1892, he set off an oil-drilling spree that made Los Angeles one of the world’s major petroleum fields. Oil fostered industrialism. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, some of that city’s manufacturers moved their operations…

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Teapot Dome Scandal

  • Sinclair, Harry F.
    In Harry F. Sinclair

    …no-interest “loans” from Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, another oil producer who had taken out a similar lease with Fall’s approval. A Senate investigation subsequently brought the scandal to light, and the leases were canceled. Sinclair was cited for contempt of the U.S. Senate for refusing to answer certain questions…

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  • Teapot Dome Scandal
    In Teapot Dome Scandal

    He granted similar rights to Edward L. Doheny of Pan American Petroleum Company for the Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills reserves in California (1921–22).

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